I surprised this entire film isn't considered offensive.
In today's PC happy society the very name Dumbo would be considered offensive.
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*sighs* But it's not in today's time. If you think this is offensive, then you probably couldn't take Warner Brothers old cartoons. That's some racist ish, but I'm not offended because it reflected the times that those cartoons were made in.
shareSaying racism was part of the normal back then is a complete cop out.There's no excuse for it nomatter what the era is.If it was part of the norm then every single white person in the country would've been racist.
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, that's not what I was saying, so whatever. Think what you want.
sharePeople are every bit as biased and prejudiced today as they ever were. They've simply chosen other targets to fling hatred at.
shareWhat's with all the self-serving "moral outrage" over the "Jim Crow" character being voiced by a white actor (Cliff Edwards)? What idiocy! In "Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown", the voice of Violet - a white girl - is provided by Blesst Bowden, a Black child actress. The actor currently giving voice to the Caucasian Barney Rubble (in this year's "Stone-Age Smackdown") is the African-American Kevin Michael Richardson. They're ACTORS - and, as voice over actors, they are not even seen by the viewers, so what difference does it make? Did they do their job well? Absolutely, and that is all that matters.
These whiners who are so obsessed with racism, real or imagined, could find bigotry in a bowl of corn flakes (the lighter flakes outnumber the darker flakes). Dry up, already.
Well, technically his name really is "Jumbo Junior", but Dumbo seems ineffectual as an insult, so the name stuck in the story and film.
shareThe more offensive to today's pc fools, the better. People in 1941 had enough sense to tell the difference between a joke and a serious insult. That intelligence has been lost.
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